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HIMSS19: The Year of Artificial Intelligence

February 15, 2019

This year’s education schedule at the HIMSS Conference, held this week at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, is awash in AI-related material, notes HealthCare Innovation in a post this week. To name a few: Session MLAI03, “Keynote: Synergies Between Man and Machine”; Session MLAI04, “State of the Industry: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence…

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As the Industry Modernizes, OrboGraph Responds

February 13, 2019

February is the perfect time to unveil an exciting refresh of content, messaging, and solutions on the OrboGraph website! We have observed major industry activities by large banks, small banks, healthcare providers and healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) companies to update antiquated, legacy systems.  This Platform Modernization process is an opportunity for OrboGraph and its customers…

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Healthcare Revenue Cycle Careers: Prime for Millennials?

February 5, 2019

According to a report from staffing and recruiting firm LaSalle Network, which reviewed responses from 3,500 millennial revenue cycle professionals, ranging from managers to executives, Millennial healthcare professionals who work in the revenue cycle are largely satisfied with their employers. This is good news for an industry that will need to fill positions with young…

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Deep Learning: How Will It Change Healthcare?

January 25, 2019

ORBOIMPACT Virtual Conference Explore the Conference It’s become clear that leveraging AI and Deep Learning tech is the key to better patient care, while at the same time reducing costs and improving efficiencies — our primary missions in the healthcare field. But, what exactly is Deep Learning? Health IT Analytics offers a pretty concise overview…

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The 2019 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference: “It’s the Platform, Stupid!”

January 18, 2019

As is his tradition, Dan Michelson, CEO of Strata Decision Technology, took his best shot at condensing the presentations he’d seen at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference (last week in San Francisco). Over 40,000 players were in town from every corner of the healthcare ecosystem. However, if you want to hear the heartbeat of what’s happening at…

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A Look Back at 2018: Top 10 Healthcare IT News Articles

January 10, 2019

Welcome to 2019! We’ve experienced an eventful 2018 in Healthcare IT, and who better than Healthcare IT News to offer the Top 10 Healthcare IT News articles of 2018? As expected, the impact and rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning was covered in depth: Artificial intelligence and machine learning gained a greater presence, and we conducted…

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Next 5 years in AI: Big Investment, Big Returns, Survey Says

December 20, 2018

Via Becker’s Hospital Review: OptumIQ Annual Survey on AI in Health Care reveals that, over the next five years, a healthcare organization will invest an average of $32.4 million on artificial intelligence. According to Optum: The inaugural OptumIQ Annual Survey on AI in Health Care indicates a tipping point in the adoption of AI in the industry,…

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Survey: 26% of Hospitals Without Effective Revenue Cycle Management System

December 13, 2018

You read that right: About a quarter of all US hospitals — 26% — do not have an effective healthcare revenue cycle management solution in place, according to a new Black Book survey. According to RevCycle Intelligence, Black Book surveyed over 4,640 individuals from 522 hospitals and healthcare delivery networks regarding their use of 165 revenue…

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Patient Leakage Represents a 10% Revenue Loss to Healthcare Facilities

December 6, 2018

RevCycle Intelligence reports on a new survey that healthcare organizations are losing revenue because they are failing to properly manage referrals and patient leakage. Some of the report’s findings: There’s a gap between priority and action. Some 87% of healthcare executives say patient leakage is a high priority, but 23% don’t track leakage and 20% don’t…

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Syncing Revenue Cycle & Patient Experience

November 13, 2018

In today’s “retail medical market” with heightened RCM patient focus, improving a patient’s financial experience is a key to healthcare revenue cycle management success, according to the Senior Regional Director of Revenue Cycle at Ascension Healthcare. RevCycleIntelligence.com reports that the ability to implement self-service technology and give accurate price estimates is key to improving the patient experience…

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